> Income and wealth distribution is extremely important to 44% of voters, the highest reading across the three midterm elections in which Gallup has measured it and well above the 32% in 2018 and 31% in 2014.[1]
I don't have to think that income and wealth distribution is important. I can just look at the fact that it is.
I'm curious though, if this doesn't, what would you convince you?
1. https://news.gallup.com/poll/716333/issues-voters-say-matter...
I'm also talking about a hypothetical where most people would fit into the middle class. If we eliminate the entire bottom tier of economic status, don't you think that would have an impact on how people see the ultra-rich? It's not the gap that's important, it's whether the bottom tier of people are homeless or living in a house with a job they can live with.
Peoples' instinctive ideal of a just world are in tension with the very idea that effort leads to success. Living standards don't factor in to this observation, because the issue isn't physical comfort, it's the psychological tension that me and all my peers work damn hard and it's not physically or mentally possible to work 14,000 times harder[1].
It's the psychological tension that the people creating wealth from income and people creating wealth from capital are playing different games, that no matter how hard we work, we won't be playing that game. This runs up against our instinctive beliefs about how the world should work. No amount of comfort hides that.
1. 1B wealth divided by 68,998, the median adult wealth in the US.
I can agree with this, but of course the crux of the argument is how to address this, which parts to change or correct and how.
For example schools can teach about business and capital at an early age. Everyone can learn to produce local businesses that grow over time. This creates local economies where everyone has small businesses, providing jobs, and creating small amounts of wealth for themselves and their communities. This is still capitalism, but it's not globalism form of capitalism.
The problem is how in every industry you have a handful of giants that own the sector, so to speak. They work to make competition harder through government regulations that kill small businesses. Immigration, out-sourcing to other countries, and the lack of small businesses then create a job market that heavily favors large corporations. People looking for jobs find themselves competing with the world, and with a lack of openings. This gives the coprorations almost unlimited leverage to do layoffs, hire whoever, etc., and this effecitively creates a bottom tier of society of people who are stuck in "wage slavery".
The solution is far from just getting a few billion from rich individuals. The problem is the game itself, government and corporate collusion, that is driven by the same people suggesting all the Leftist agendas that don't really work and only serve to distract.